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CANE STRIPPER.

No. 258,047. Patented May 16, 1882.

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WILLIAM P. GARD, OEPARSONS, KANSAS.

CANE-.STRIPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,047, dated May 16, 1882. Application filed March 23, 1882. (No model.)

line 00 :20,-Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa rear view of a set of stripping-blocks.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the removal of the leaves from cane-stalks in preparing cane for the crushing-mills.

The invention consists in a cane-stripper constructed with a'set of corresponding triangular blocks, having an aperture at their apexes, placed in a recessed plate or frame, and held forward by springs, and secured in place by a face-plate, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A represents a plate or frame, in the forward side of which is formed a rectangular recess,

B. Within the recess B are placed four triangular blocks or" plates, G, of such a shape that "the four blocks will form a square. Each triangular block 0 is held forward by a spring, D, interposed between its base and the side of the recess B, so that either block 0 can move outward. The blocks 0 and springs D are secured in place in the recesses B by'a plate or frame, E, which is secured to the plate or frame A, and is so formed or cut away as to leave the middle parts of the blocks 0 uncovered. Theadjacent angles of theblocksO are notched to form a hole, F, which is flared toward the rear side of the said blocks, as shown in Fig.2.

In the plate A, at therear of the blocks 0, is formed an aperture, G, which is made large enough to allow the largest part of a canestalk to readily pass through it.

- The stripper is designed to be placed in front of the rollers of a cane-crusher and attached to posts or a supporting-frame, so that when' the tops of the cane-stalks have been out off the smaller ends of the said stalks can be passed through the hole F, grasped by the crushing-rollers, and drawn through the stripper into the mill, the block 0 stripping the leaves from the said stalks. If desired, the cane-stalks can be drawn through the stripper by hand.

One, two, three, or more sets of blocks, G,

and springs D can be used with the same Witnesses: K

A. N. GoRNELIUs, A. MILLER. 

